Challenging Kids

For the last year and half I have worked with Project LIFE – Living Independently Focusing on Empowerment, with the goal to promote permanent family connections for older youth while coordinating and enhancing life skills development for youth in

There has been much written on the process of transformational change in the business sector over the past few decades, but very little has been done in applying these proven principles to working with challenging young people.

Thirteen California cities have learned from each other, sharing successes and solutions, giving moral and tangible support to each other, taking tested strategies from multiple sources to address long-standing problems, and making inroads on the

One of my student teachers explained that the principal in her elementary school was in heated battle with a five-year-old kindergarten student. She told me that the little boy was struggling. “He swears, he calls me names and he hits me.”

As a trainer and staff developer for the last 11 years, the majority of my work has been with adults. I have had the honor of traveling the world working with professionals who work in a variety of settings.

Your gift to Starr Commonwealth will help vulnerable families transform their lives. Every dollar goes directly to helping children, adults, families and communities thrive through proven, strength-based programs. Giving is secure and easy and will bring help and hope to children and their families.